King Faraday

King Faraday is a fictional secret agent featured in DC Comics. Faraday first appeared in Danger Trail #1, and was created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino.
Faraday's last appearance in the 1950s was in World's Finest Comics #64. He was picked up again after more than twenty-five years, in Batman #313.

Fictional character biography

He is named "King" by his father as a joke, a play on the phrase "King for a day".
An ex-soldier, he takes a position as a counter-espionage agent for the U.S. government and engages in a variety of standard spy-type capers. Some of his Danger Trail adventures are reprinted in Showcase #50 under the title "I-Spy". Faraday is later incorporated into the DC Universe as a member of the Central Bureau of Intelligence. He is also Nightshade's mentor, and recruited her and Bronze Tiger into Task Force X.
In One Year Later, Faraday is a member of Checkmate, serving as the Bishop for White Queen Amanda Waller.
In The New 52: Futures End, Faraday works with Grifter to investigate alien and cross-dimensional spies on Earth.

Skills and abilities

Faraday possesses no superhuman abilities but is a trained espionage agent and an expert hand-to-hand fighter and marksman.

Other versions

An alternate universe variant of King Faraday appears in the Tangent Comics one-shot Green Lantern. This version is a Moldavan exile and detective who died in a plane crash before Green Lantern temporarily resurrects him to solve his last unfinished case.
An alternate universe variant of King Faraday appears in DC: The New Frontier. This version is the leader of Project Flying Cloud, a movement to capture metahumans. However, he befriends Martian Manhunter and later sacrifices himself to save him from The Centre.

In other media

Television

King Faraday appears in Justice League Unlimited, voiced by Scott Patterson. This version is the Justice League's liaison with the U.S. government.
King Faraday appears in the Young Justice episode "Performance", voiced by Clancy Brown. This version is an agent of Interpol.

Film

The New Frontier incarnation of King Faraday appears in Justice League: The New Frontier, voiced by Phil Morris.

King Faraday appears in Catwoman: Hunted, voiced by Jonathan Frakes. This version is an agent of Interpol.
King Faraday appears in Justice League: Warworld, voiced by Frank Grillo.

Video games

King Faraday appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.

Miscellaneous

King Faraday appears in Smallville Season 11. This version is an agent of Checkmate who bonded with a captive White Martian named Megan, treating her as a daughter. He is later killed during General Zod's attack on the Castle, one of Checkmate's bases.